Bitmap vs. Vector Quiz

Conglomeration Animation

With the alliances being made with media owners increasing the amount of this mainstream media is sitting in the hands of fewer companies to control. For my Media Conglomeration Animation I chose America Online Instant message. In my animation I have the AIM logo running off the cliff of the mountain and killing itself. After it kills itself the soul rises up to heaven as the word MEDIA. I used this because our society relies so much on America Online and other Media Conglomerations that they need to stop buying up small individual media companies.

Media Globilization

With the emergence of transnational media conglomerates the dominance of these global media industries cause an uneven flow of information. The use of these new technologies from the conglomerate companies cause a deregulation in society. This raises concern for the new changes in technology. One change will be how the old and new media merge together to form one consistent form of information. Another concern is how and where media will be taken in. With all this new technology the consumption of media is very easy to come by. "Media globalization has been made possible by the ongoing changes and developments in information and communications technology." Examples of this are Cable, DSL, and Broadband each of these new communication technologies are speeding up the way we can access media. One concern is for poor societies who don't have these advances in mass media. How will they get these advancements and keep up with more information rich societies. The "digital divide" between these societies needs to be taken into account. Some other worries the book explains about media globalization is media imperialism, cultural homogenization, and general fears about the rise of global capitalism. These criticisms are valid and need to be addressed immediately. We need to restructure media ownership so these media conglomerates don't cause these concerns and worries we have.

ENTOURAGE

Entourage is a show on the HBO network that is in its fifth season. It is about 4 guys from Queens that make it big in Hollywood with their asshole agent. Entourage has always been a big show since it came out. I think it appeals to so many people because it is everyone's dream to make it big in hollywood. The fans want to see what they are like off the movie screen or tv. The show makes alot of money through mechandise like t-shirts, dvd sales, posters, ect. There is alot of nudity, drinking, and cursing in this show so the fans that it appeals to are older.

Beyonce Knowles

1. What kinds of demographic factors such as age, ethnicity, or class shape their fan base?
- Beyonce has mostly young to middle aged fans.
She appeals to allraces. She first became big with the music group Destiny's Child. As the group became bigger she wanted to break a way from that and start a solo career. She has recently been in movies such as Austin Powers and Dreamgirls. This has broadened her fan base hugely.

2) Do Beyonce fans constitute a specific subculture?
No I don't think so, she has so many different types of fans.
Whether its from her movies or her songs.